Installation woes - Core 4

From: Ed Smits (ed.smits_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/09/05

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    Just got a new workstation for the house, tried to install Core 4
    (from CD). As soon as it starts, I get the kernel loading dots, and
    then it immediately screws up and hangs. The messages are
    approximately:

    kernel_thread_helper
    a bunch of code
    <0>kernel panic - not syncing
    attempted to kill ini!!
    panic
    do_exit
    die
    do_invalid

    and on until the last line reads:
    kernel_thread_helper

    and it's hung.

    It is a new system, so I took the disks to another machine, started
    the install, checked all 4 disks, all OK, tried again, same thing.

    As a joke I had a DVD of Mandrake 10.1 Community from last fall, it
    installed perfectly, so I wondered what was up. By chance I discovered
    a forgotten DVD of Fedora Core 4 Test 1, it installed no problem, so I
    figured maybe I needed to try a new download - using Torrent I
    downladed the Core 4 DVD overnight, burned it, exactly the same thing,
    hung again.

    Any ideas what could be going on? I specifically haven't included a
    hardware list with this email, I figure if a year old Mandrake and a
    Test 1 can be installed it shouldn't be a hardware thing.

    I'm a relative newbie, used Mandrake for a year, had to give it up for
    work reasons, now have a machine at home I can learn on, want to run
    Fedora (didn't learn enough with Mandrake, too easy)

    Thanks

    ED 

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